Post by mikio on Jan 10, 2018 8:15:48 GMT -5

Hair & Eye Color: Long, wavy brown hair cut into an undercut and tied back into a ponytail; sky blue eyes with flecks of gray.

Positive Traits: Protective, Dedicated, Fearless

Negative Traits: Stubborn, High-strung, Gung-Ho

Loyalties: Clan

Snapshots:

[ ON THE SURFACE ]

Physical Description: Ulrich stands at a respectable 6'1" and keeps a broad frame as part of and as result from his training. Though he allows his hair to grow out, he keeps it in an undercut, with the long, wavy brown locks tied back in a ponytail. While his face is ordinary at best, he is known for his blue-silver eyes and the cool scent of tea tree oil, due to his love of lotions and shampoos employing it. Normally, his baritone is equally as cool. When not agitated, he speaks slow and clear, enunciating each word.

Like most Quincy, Ulrich stays in uniform. The Germany variety does not differ much from the Japanese Quincy, in that most involve a white military-style attire, featuring a blue trim. The bangle upon his left wrist and the glove on his right hand are the only truly outstanding fashion statements Ulrich will ever make.

Spiritual Description: Like the fires that he claims to purge the Hollow abominations in, his aura is a white hot mess of licking fire and heat. Within the tendrils, one might hear the cackling of a mad man, others might hear the wails of hollow suffrage, a homage to his past triumphs over the scourge.

[ BEHIND THE EYES ]

Personality: Family is a limited commodity, so he has learned to protect it. In public, when not actively hunting, he portrays a calm and collected gentleman. Though he does not make friends too easily, he does have a protective nature of even strangers - being all life is sacred. This is why, against his knowledge of past transgressions, he does not hunt Shinigami; tolerating them is the best way to describe his view. When he does take to hunting, he is merciless and almost reckless in the vengeance he brings down upon the heartless enemy. His human-life tends to revolve around work, leaving little time for socialization. When not at work, he is either resting, training or hunting, preforming his duties as a Quincy.

Goals & Achievements: Being among the pure-blooded Quincy, Ulrich hopes that he may one day sit along side the council of Elders, praised for his youth spent slaying the hollows without mercy. More short-term, he hopes to one day enter Hueco Mundo and engage in a bloodbath of purging fire. Ever since his first hollow hunt, in which he slayed over two dozen faceless hollows at the age of thirteen, he firmly believes he should move to the front lines of the cleansing, alongside other Quincy who believe in the crusades against the hollow.

[ GUARDIAN ANGEL ]

Quincy Cross: Ulrich's symbol is a slight variation of the classic Cletic Cross. The cross is a design etched into a silver bangle worn on his left wrist. It appears to be little more than a fashion statement, but it was awarded for his exemplary success in a baited Hollow hunt.

Power: Feuer Löschen (Purging Fire) manifests what appears to be celestial wings from his back. These appendages are constructed of highly agitated Reishi comparable the Seele Schneider, When they slam into a Reishi-based body or construct, it aggregates the Reishi, causing it to combust in an ever-burning cleansing flame.

Spirit Weapon: Ulrich's Spirit Weapon is nothing less than a German zweihander. It is meant to cleave through most things, or crush what it cannot cleave. Unlike the Japanese Katana (or Nodachi for comparable size) its blade is thicker and heavier, designed with tough armored skin in mind. This weapon was his choice because it is notoriously the most difficult weapon native to his clan.

[ LEGACY CREATED ]

Origin:Ulrich was born to a Quincy couple, into a small clan of pure blood Quincy. For as long as he can remember, he has had the best of training known to their kind, and as long as he stayed in Germany, Clanmates could help him into any mundane job he desired, short of political power.

His parents were not insanely wealthy, but he wanted for naught. While some children might have been spoiled by this early life style, Ulrich was taught from an early age the meaning of discipline, which included the hot sting of a belt if he did something particularly bad, but often meant extra chores. As he grew older, the punishments started including physically taxing exercises, a remnant of his father's time spent in the military.

Being a Quincy in Germany meant that a lot of time was spent visiting family. The Don Jager clan was a tight community, and more often than not he spent more time with Quincies than humans, who were all undergoing a similar parental code.

For the first few years of schooling, he was taught alongside his kin, playing sports and learning math like any other child. This was mainly so that when they began training in Reishi Manipulation, that a child would not go about and show off to human friends.

He was allowed to attend a private High school, to mingle among humans on a daily basis. He quickly learned how fragile they tended to be from first hand experience when attempting to play sports, and how numb they were to all things spiritual. During class he would hear the howl of a hollow and no one would bat an eye.

He graduated with honors, as was to be expected of him. Though it was not quite as meaningful, he still wears his high school ring on his left hand, if nothing more than a reminder of normality. Despite being a great Quincy for his age, he was expected to have some sort of mundane life. He managed to leave high school with a welding degree, which he put to use for a short while.

Rise to Power:He proved to be something of a child prodigy, capable of gathering and forming Reishi at the age of ten. At the age of thirteen, he was put to the first test and taken on a Hunt. At first he was kept at the back, but he quickly moved to the front lines and managed to stand on par with some of his older peers. During the Bait challenge lasting several days, he destroyed at least two dozen Hollows before his body finally gave out.

After the successful trial, he turned in the traditional Quincy Cross and given a silver bangle with the clan's preferred symbol etched into it. To others it was a neat piece of jewelry, a fashion statement maybe, but to him it was a crowning achievement and the first real step into becoming a powerful Quincy.

His training only intensified after the first trial. At the age of eighteen, he took the second; this one voluntary. Instead of a Baited hunt, he simply had to conjure his weapon, cut down a tree and chop it into fire wood. While it would have been no problem for the sword longer than he was tall, he had to do it while wearing the Sanrei glove. The massive Spirit Weapon he had chosen as a means to prove his strength was nearly impossible to manifest.

It took him twenty days to create the simplest remnant of his weapon long enough to preform the task. While this was not the longest recorded time, it was not quite the shortest. To try and prove himself, he dropped almost all social aspects of his life for several months, returning home from work only to train with overcoming the restraints of his Sanrei glove.

In six months time, he could finally recreate his Zweihander in its fullest. This in itself was not much of a feat, but what earned the praise of his parents was the unique technique he developed along the way. During manifestation, the Reishi gathered would become very aggravated and appear almost like fire. Upon completion, he decided to work on replicating the technique, thus creating Feuer Löschen.

The Feuer Löschen began as simply coating his weapon in the "purging fire." but through practice both on and off the battle field, his technique was refined, much like his weapon, until it he could manifest it on command upon his back, like the wings of an angel. This technique was all his own, earning him a great deal of respect from his elders and at times even the envy of some of his peers. Though he is still learning to properly fight with this new ability, it goes to prove his level of skill when it comes to Reishi Manipulation.

Call to Action:While he had been born, raised and trained in Germany, Ulrich was limited by a lack of spiritual challenge. Of his peers in the de Jager clan, he had proven to be the superior Quincy. While this would have been an achievement for most, he had heard that the Quincy in Japan were pushed to far greater levels by his age. He moved to Japan after his twentieth birthday after learning at least Conversational Japanese.

Post by mikio on Jan 10, 2018 8:17:00 GMT -5

STATS, SKILLS, AND POWERS

[ STRENGTH OF THE WORLD ]

First Release

Power Effects: Feuer Löschen gathers Reishi into four 10 foot Reishi-tendrils upon his back. These can be manipulated as a part of his body, and used to slam or stab opponents. If the target is composed of Reishi, the point of impact is left "burning." Over time, he can gather enough Reishi to manifest another pair or elongate those he already possesses to a total of 10 tendrils, or 30 feet - or both in an extended fight, or in an area of high Reishi concentration.

Power Description: The white hot hatred of the Hollow scourge is shown in the appearance of these wing-like appendages. They move slow on the large scale, but the reishi they are composed of moves just as fast as in Seele Schneider. The lack of shared direction does not give them the cutting edge, but instead tends to cause whatever Reishi they touch to burst into flames, ripping far more violently from it's host.

Second Release

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Third Release

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